Company execs have indicated they’re committed to, and identify with the District as their corporate home. And in an interview with Bill Flook, CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy said of the company’s role in the D.C. tech community: “I have first and foremost a responsibility to our employees and our customers and shareholders. That’s where I feel a lot of responsibility. If we do things right, if we meet those responsibilities to those constituents, I think really good things happen for the D.C. community overall.”

But the thing is, the company would be hard pressed to find a single building in the District with enough space to accommodate them now. That having been said, there are dozens of developers that would love to have them as a signature tenant and might be willing to throw in some hefty concessions to stamp LivingSocial’s logo across their planned towers.

With enough space, they could trigger the new construction of projects like the second half of Tishman Speyer’s two-building development at 1150 1st St. NE in NoMa or even William C. Smith & Co. Inc.’s planned four-building, 1.4 million-square-foot 800 New Jersey Ave. SE.

Outside of those options, there’s a notable shortage of large blocks of vacant space, according to real estate market data.

The company now has a smattering of a half-dozen offices downtown, with a large portion of its 1,000-plus workers near the Metro Center and Chinatown-Gallery Place metro stations.